Description

Travel Blogs from The Hague

... followed by Caterpillar Cemetery where Christine's grandfather's uncle is buried. Looking at the countryside these days it is hard to imagine the scale of war that occurred 100 years ago. The drive was pretty memorable as the GPS took us on every backroad you could think of so we saw a lot of lovely countryside and little French towns - also notable were the Commonwealth WWI grave sites everywhere.

... on enormous couches in the lobby, surrounded by clocks--grandfathers and mothers, and smaller--some working, most not. To our surprised delight, not 5 minutes later the concierge announced that our room was actually ready. Somehow we made it--not really, it was one level up via elevator--to our home for the next 5 nights. It has amazing decor: Karen and Kris had Cleopatra lounges poolside in Cambodia, ...

... to rotterdam for the day to see the crazy architecture for which it is famous. We hired bikes and spent a few hours cycling around the city, dodging the rain showers eating kibblering at the fantastic markets and visiting the mad cube houses, before heading back to The Hague and going to the Escher museum. The museum was really fun and playful, set in an old royal palace, it I spread over three floors with the first two tracing ...

... older? So we located the bike path sign that showed 'Haarlem' and escaped the rat-race. The late afternoon thunderstorm forecast for today turned into an early afternoon thunderstorm so we rode the last 10km in the rain with our jackets on. By the time we reached Haarlem the sun was shinning again. However that didn't last long, we just had time to park the bikes and clean up when the rain started ...

... passed out for a few hours. We arose around 10:30 and went to this place across the street for 'dinner'. I got a veggie burger and a beer. So many weird people worked there; a little Australian guy with a rats tail, so many inept young foreign waitresses and a scary Dutch bouncer with a full on Mohawk and a huge serpentine tattoo up his neck. After we'd finished our meals it took ages for the serving lady to ...